yucca

One of the most popular indoor and outdoor specimen

Yucca elephantipes is one of the most versatile indoor and outdoor foliage plants. With its striking architectural shape it can be grown in garden beds and as a spectacular hardy pot plant exposed to sun, frost, heat and wind. Create a trendy mediterranean look around your pool, on the patio or grow your Yucca indoors.

Edible plant

Australia’s top restaurants are eagerly awaiting the first commercial blooms of the delicious Yucca flower, called "itabo" or "izote" by the Mayans, with the first commercially grown blooms likely to sell at auction to the highest bidder. Costa Rica’s favorite flower is one of natures most nutritional and delicious foods and is set to make a great edition to a green salad, chicken soup, casseroles or fried egg and potatoes (Costa Rica’s favorite dish).

Powerful medicinal qualities

The plant produces its magnificent white bell shaped blooms off and on for short periods during spring and summer, once it is semi mature. The flowers should be harvested and eaten as they open or just prior to opening. The ancient Mayans were highly advanced horticulturalists and prized the Yucca flower for its medicinal qualities. It can be used fresh, steeped in boiled water or dried for making herbal tea. According to ancient Central American folk law the tea has medicinal powers and was used to treat a wide range of disorders as well as being a tonic for general energy boosting.

Modern medicine properties include a tonic made by boiling and steeping the flowers, which is soothing to the stomach. The leaves can be used to treat albuminuria and colitis and can be also used as a diuretic.

Modern Landscape Plants includes an array of many colourful and unique sculptured plants from Yucca's, flaxes Cordylines, succulent, and ornamental grasses of different sizes, shapes and colours.

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The Yucca is suitable to Australian conditions tolerating heat, dry, wet and cold areas.

Yuccas need very little care once planted in the ground, fertilise 2-3 times per year. For care in pots position them in a well lit area. Yuccas need some natural light to maintain vigor. If they are grown indoors and are looking tired strip back any old or spotted leaves, pot up to a larger pot and leave outdoors in a semi shaded position for 3-6 months. Fertlise with fish fertiliser once a month and water weekly, allow the plant to dry out before rewatering .

Yucca elephantipes is propagated by harvesting tall canes, from a cane nursery in Queensland. The canes are cut into lengths and stuck into pots, this creates two different styles of plant, canes and tips. The canes have smaller multiple heads and the tips have very large singular heads.

Chris & Marie's Plant Farms has a range of tips and canes from small to large sizes at reasonable prices. 8" pots $69.50 & 12" pots $79.50 each available in spring and summer.